Enabling services
Our specialist and professional Enabling Services play a critical role in supporting the delivery of the WMCA Aims & Objectives and work in a collaborative and integrated way across directorates.
Enabling Services teams consist of approximately 200 FTE across the following areas:
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Digital & Data – remit spans from building and supplying laptops to business intelligence and systems architecture.
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Finance & Business hub
- Procurement - responsible for ensuring that WMCA complies with the Public Contract Regulations 2015 when carrying out its procurements of any value.
- Risk - supports the identification, mitigation and active management of risks within a framework to ensure there is thorough monitoring and escalation happens in a consistent and proportionate way.
- Insurance - Managing organisational liabilities and reducing exposure to risk.
- Commercial & Investment - supports the development and implementation of the Combined Authority investment and commercial activities strategy that assists the WMCA’s wider objectives across all Directorates.
- Finance - stewardship of public money and ensuring financial sustainability.
- HR – provide HR advice & support and get the best from our people from recruitment through to workforce planning within a strategic framework
- Business Planning – Working with colleagues to facilitate and develop a business plan that links the resources we have, the activities we do and the outcomes we want to achieve.
- Performance – providing monitoring, analysis and reporting of progress against both corporate objectives and specific grant funds and focusing on ‘metrics that matter’ to support decision making.
- Assurance & Appraisal -Ensures adherence to the Single Assurance Framework (SAF) as a system of internal control applied to projects and programmes receiving devolved funding
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Equalities & Inclusion – focusing on both internal and external diversity and wellbeing including Race Equalities Taskforce, Women in Leadership, Disability Taskforce and communities of practice in community engagement.
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Communications - provide specialist input on media, stakeholder and events, service operations and digital communications
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Learning and Organisational Development - ensuring the WMCA is a great place to work and staff have the right skills and competencies for the future
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Legal and Governance – provision of legal services, ensures good governance, information security/sharing and audit
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Strategic Facilities Management and Assets – ensuring our spaces and services enable us to do our very best work, provide value for money and ensure we can collaborate and do our best work wherever we are
During 2021/22 a programme of Business Transformation led to structural changes within Enabling Services to ensure the most effective and efficient ways of working were being implemented. A key outcome of this work was to build a business partner model, ensuring there was strategic and specialist resource in all teams and that outcomes and requirements are agreed and updated on a regular basis. This inward look will continue throughout 2022/23.